The National Alliance of Research Associates Programs | Various locations in the Tri-State Area
Hours per week: 20| Desired Start Date: Spring 2022 | This position is unpaid
Looking for a significant clinical research experience
for your gap year(s) between college and health professional school? Want to “jump start” your career in ways those going directly from college to health professional school can’t possibly do?
Chief RAs are volunteers serving about twenty (20) hours per week on average in their hospital’s RA Program. Chief RAs help their hospital’s RA Programs to conduct their Department of Emergency Medicine research and to enroll participants in NARAP's national, multi-center studies.
This year's study is part of a 5-year longitudinal study on the emergency department as a site to facilitate primary healthcare screenings. This research has the potential to enroll more participants than any other prospective, interventional study in history.
Qualifications:
- undergraduate degree and pre-requisite courses completed
- applying to medical school, or other health professional school
- complete an on-line training course through NARAP
- serve as their RA Program Director's assistants for the academic year or until health professional school matriculation
- develop their RA Program’s recruiting, personnel management, scheduling, website, database management
- “first port of call” for Line RAs' on-shift issues
- involved in all aspects of clinical research from concept initiation to publication
- attend didactic sessions and research meetings of their department of emergency medicine
- depending on their level of involvement, may be the principal or associate investigators on study(ies)
Think these might provide some interesting things to talk about at health profession school interviews?
For details and a list of the current NARAP Affiliate RA Programs, please head to the web sites: www.theNARAP.org or www.RAProgram.org (St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, CT
Application Instructions: Apply here
Please direct any questions to Dr. Keith Bradley, MD, NARAP’s CEO/CMO, at KBradley@theNARAP.org.